French Catholic émigrés established Savannah’s 1st parish, referred to as the Congrégation Delaware Saint Jean-Baptiste, shortly before the top of the eighteenth century. They came to Savannah within the aftermath of associate insurrection in Haiti. Among them were nobles fleeing the revolution that had begun in 1789. The congregation grew through the addition of immigrants, and on could thirty, 1799, the politician and Aldermen of Savannah passed a resolution reserving [*fr1] a trust ton on Liberty sq. for the congregation’s use. One year later to the day the cornerstone was set for the little frame church of Saint John the Baptist.
In Gregorian calendar month 1804, the congregation had begun to expertise growing pains and petitioned the town for an additional ton, however since none was then on the market, the petition was rejected. On August two, 1811, however, the politician and Aldermen of Savannah granted a petition for a bigger parcel of land close, at Montgomery and Hull Streets; the planned new church was ne'er designed thereon property. Rather, the congregation selected a web site on Drayton and Perry Streets. All of Georgia became a part of the jurisdiction of Charleston once it had been established in 1820, beneath Bishop John European country. In 1835, Bishop European country placed the cornerstone of the new church between Perry and